Table 10.

Effect of 15 days treatment with GII 50 mg/kg bw on the antioxidant enzymes in the subdiabetic, moderately diabetic and severely diabetic rabbits

	Liver	Kidneys
Super oxide dismutase (u/g tissue)
Normal	236.4 ± 22	123.2 ± 12
Sub diabetic untreated	233.3 ± 21	123.9 ± 18
Sub diabetic treated	221.7 ± 23 (−5%)	120.9 ± 16 (−2%)
Moderately diabetic untreated	185.2 ± 14	137.7 ± 0.9
Moderately diabetic treated	221.9 ± 15 (+21%)	126.4 ± 17 (−8%)
Severely diabetic untreated	172.7 ± 17	137.4 ± 18
Severely diabetic treated	246.6 ± 19 (+43%)	130.4 ± 16 (−5%)
Glutathione peroxidase (u/g tissues)
Normal	23.1 ± 2	6.3 ± 0.5
Sub diabetic untreated	22.8 ± 2	6.6 ± 0.4
Sub diabetic treated	22.6 ± 2	6.8 ± 0.4
Moderately diabetic untreated	16.6 ± 1	6.5 ± 0.5
Moderately diabetic treated	21.7 ± 2 (+31%)	6.6 ± 0.4
Severely diabetic untreated	16.2 ± 1	10.2 ± 1
Severely diabetic treated	23.5 ± 2 (+45%)	8.9 ± 0.8 (−13%)